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diving chamber

Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. US Department of Defense 2005.
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Deep-sea exploration began on June 11, 1930, when Charles William Beebe and Otis Barton descended 1,426 feet in a diving chamber known as a bathysphere.
Unique System FZE, a Unique Maritime Group company, which is one of the world's leading integrated turnkey subsea and offshore solutions providers, completed the handover of a new hyperbaric treatment system to Captain Ismail Hassan Al Housani, officer-in-charge of the Diving Chamber and Rescue Department.
Oliver Firth, London Diving Chamber medical director, said: "It's staggering that he survived.
Officials recovered the bodies of eight divers, six of them Indians, from the diving chamber of an Iranian ship that sank last Thursday as it was returning from an Iranian oil field in the Persian Gulf.
The divers - seven Indians, five Iranians and one Ukrainian - were part of a team installing an underwater oil pipeline and were inside a pressurized diving chamber when their Koosha-1 ship sank in the Persian Gulf on Thursday afternoon in stormy seas.
A TEAM of six Indian divers conducting underwater pipeline installation were last night believed to be trapped in a diving chamber nearly 200ft underwater with dwindling oxygen supplies after their support ship sank in the Persian Gulf.
In that instance, it was uptodate.com that I relied upon to secure our hyperbaric team and dissociate the patient's carboxyhemoglobin using our diving chamber. I am thrilled to report that her child is thriving--as is my patient.
She said: 'Only three can fit in the diving chamber. There wasn't even room to stand up or to go to the toilet, which was a bit of a challenge.
He was pulled into a diving chamber where colleagues tried desperately to save his life.
Now, as our exclusive pictures show, Madden is continuing his mission with the aid of a diving chamber at the Rams (Race against Multiple Sclerocis) centre just outside Belfast.
The diving chamber was onboard the ship when it sank, but the divers were inside because they stay in the sealed environment to avoid having pressurize and depressurize for their dives.
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